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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JAMES FLEURY, OF LINDSAY, ONTARIO, CANADA.

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Specicatonof Letters Patent.

PatentedDec. 17',

Application led May 14, 1912.4 Serial No. 697,284. j

mal while eating controls the supply ofk feed from the feed-hopper to the feed-l i trough.

A further object is in forming t-he valve of` two leaves or sheets of metal which are adjustable in such a manner that the supply of feed to the trough is regulated, and in `the`- provision of a' sloped conductor for conducting thefeed tothe said valve.

` kThis invention still further consists in certain` other novel features of construction and combinations of arts'which` will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out *in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings :-Fi`gure i 1 `v is a view in `perspective of my invention,

Fig. 2 isa top plan View' of the feed-trough showing the valve in position, Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. l,

.and Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 4 4 of Fig; 2.

The feed-troug "A is made preferably sector shapedin top plan view with the sides 1 and 2 (whic'hare attached to the wall of the stalll or in an ,other corner where it is desired to place t ef box), dis osed at right angles to each otheri` This leed-trenigh is made preferably of cast metal, and has the diagenally-disposed???artitions 3 and 4 exltending from the 'sides'l' and 2in such 5a. 'manner that an opening-issprovlded from the corner,y of thetrongh to the larger portion Iin thejapproximate center. The bottom of the trough inthe immediate rear of the partitions 3 and'ft is sloped from the sides l and-2 as at 5, in vsuch' a manner that vany grain vor other matter falling upon this surface 'will be thrown behind the opening,

- and the bottom at the juncture between the lsides 1 and 2- is sloped toward the opening as at 6. A rod 7 is securedto thetop of the partitions 3 and 4 by straps or clips 8 and extends across the opening. 1

A valve is composed of two leaves or sheets of metal 9 and 10, the upper of which is provided with ears 1l, 11, which are bent forwardly from the ends thereof and provided with openings 12- which are received around the rod 7, thus pivoting'the valve -to this rod in the openings between the partitions. The upper leaf 9 is provided near the lower edge thereof with openings inwhich screw-bolts 13 arereceivedyand the lower leaf 10 has slots 14 in the upper'ed ve in position to engage over the bolts Vand e thereof.

Av seat 16 is formed on the upper edges of g'the sides 1 and 2 in the rear of theparti- Ptions, and in this seat is-received the hopperdistance,-and in -this way it providesfor free movement of the valve 9. The valve, which closes by gravity, has the lower leaf 10 made of sulicientflen h lthat the ends tions and on the rear side thereof.

`a feed-box composed of few parts, economigrain or other feed is positively conducted.k to the'. opening 'from the hopper to .the trough; and in which' the `valve controlling this opening, which is .actuatedby the nose of the horse, 'is adjustable to regulatethe rom wastingD the'feed by pushin it over the side of the hopper, or 'from bo ting the bolting."a\\ p l Having fully described vmy inventlon, what I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: i u

A feed-,cx com rising m combination a feed-trou', h and a opper terminating at its iaia held by the thumb-nuts l5 on the inner ends the front of the hopper immediately abovel the opening in the partitions iscut ,awayv y and bent rearwardly as at 19 for a short abut against the outer e ges of the parti- It will thus be seenthat I have provided' cally and strongly constructed, 'in.which the )B which is constructed of sheet-metaland "i assage of feed, and thus prevent the horse..

feed, or slobbering due to an attempt at lower end in the rear of the trough, partitions dividing the trough from' the lower end of the hopper and having an opening.

between their innei` ends, a rod mounted on the upper edges of said partitions, a valve pivoted o n said rod, the sides of the hopper adjacent to the partitions being sloped to l the opening and having a seat formed on their upper edges, and a sheet-metal hopper received in said seat.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

' JAMES FLEURY.

Vitnesses:

LEIGH R. KNIGHT, AGNES R. PRESTON; 

